playmaker

Example Sentences

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Tyler Tanner, guard, Vanderbilt: The 6-foot playmaker has enjoyed a breakout season, averaging 19.2 points per game for a Commodores squad that went 16-0 to start the season.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

Several fans had already invaded the pitch in order to get close to Messi, who was taking a selfie with one when another grabbed the former Barcelona playmaker around his waist.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

Cameron was stretchered off in the second half of the Hurricanes' 52-10 Super Rugby hammering of Moana Pasifika on Friday night, with coach Clark Laidlaw conceding "it didn't look good" for the classy one-Test playmaker.

From Barron's • Feb. 21, 2026

“We’re just enjoying every game we have, and every opportunity,” said Caroline Harvey, a defensive playmaker and Edwards’s and Simms’s teammate at…how long do I keep doing this?

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

And presently the strong joy of creating kindled in him, and phrase flowed abreast with thought, and the playmaker wrote fluently and surely to an accompaniment of contented ejaculations.

From The Certain Hour by Cabell, James Branch